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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: sieve-manage no longer works without authinfo
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:46:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3m33pd6.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa3aah7vsxi.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr>

On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:42:01 +0100 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> wrote: 

JD> Btw, I'm suprised by the code you added that check if the :password is a
JD> function and then call it. Isn't that something which should be handled
JD> by auth-source rather than its user? Or I miss something else.

Unfortunately Emacs Lisp doesn't offer a better way to hide secret data.
So this is how we have to hide passwords in stack traces, debug
messages, etc.  See also
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/77536 ("Re: Password protection")
where Lars and I talked about it.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07  6:04 Michael Welsh Duggan
2011-03-07 11:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-07 14:33   ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-07 15:30     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-07 15:42       ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-07 15:46         ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-03-08  1:36         ` Michael Welsh Duggan

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